⚠️graphic descriptions⚠️
Barbarism beyond all imagination - a report detailing the Hamas terrorists' almost unimaginable horrors. The Civil Commission presents the most comprehensive report to date on the sexual atrocities committed on October 7 and during hostage captivity.
Based on a uniquely constructed war crimes archive and a two-year independent investigation, the report concludes that Hamas and its collaborators used sexual and gender-based violence as a central component of the attacks and captivity.
Drawing on extensive testimony, visual documentation, and forensic evidence, the report identifies 13 recurring patterns of abuse across multiple locations and phases of the attacks, including prolonged sexual abuse in captivity and the deliberate digital dissemination of violence to amplify terror and humiliation.
Together, the report and archive reveal the full scope of the atrocities and provide an evidentiary and legal foundation for future investigation, prosecution and prevention.
https://www.civilc.org/silenced-no-more
Bellow - an article by Daily Mail
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Among the mutilated and butchered bodies of young women slaughtered on October 7, it was their colourful, polished nails that many of the morgue staff remember. Bright, beautiful, shiny, pink manicures glistening amid the pervasive 'grey and green' of death were often the only reminder of who these girls had been just hours earlier. Because Hamas-led terrorists had not just executed these women. They had 'deliberately and systematically' defiled them, as the most comprehensive account of the atrocity released by The Civil Commission today shows.
The terrorists shot their eyes, their faces, and their breasts and even targeted their most intimate parts, to destroy their beauty and rob their loved ones of a final goodbye.
Women were stripped, bound, stabbed, shot, and burned. They were executed both during and after rape amid an orgy of violence where 1,200+ people were killed and 251 taken hostage. Heads were decapitated. Pelvic bones shattered. Even after death, sexual assault continued.
A grotesque, medieval obsession with sexual organs pervaded the crime scenes at the Nova Festival and in the Kibbutzim near Gaza. At Kibbutz Be'eri, nails, sharp objects, and pieces of metal and plastic were similarly embedded in a woman whose body was discovered naked and bound. On another victim, grenades were used.
While ordinarily newspapers censor the full horrors of such accounts, today, as hard as it is, over 430 witnesses, survivors, experts and medical staff ask that you do not look away. For over two years they have given evidence to The Civil Commission, an independent Israeli women's rights NGO established in the wake of October 7, 2023 in response to the failure of international institutions to address the sexual violence committed that day.
The Daily Mail was the first British newspaper granted advance access to the report, fittingly titled 'Silenced No More', which is released today. It shows it was not just women who were degraded as a 'deliberate tool of terror, humiliation, and control'. Men were sexually abused and in at least one case gang raped.
Victims were mutilated, with body parts cut off used to create depraved scenes gleefully concocted to traumatise those who discovered them. ‘The purpose was humiliation, not victory,' first responder Eran Masas, who came across one such barbaric arrangement, told The Civil Commission.
Those taken hostage were assaulted in front of loved ones and young relatives forced to commit sex acts on each other, an intentional, premeditated strategy of kinocide to destroy family units even after release from captivity.
The report runs almost 300 pages of utterly harrowing evidence, which collates and corroborates previous testimonies - as well as revealing disturbing new accounts. The extensive, graphic testimonies are unflinching, and seriously distressing. But sadly, it is also necessary that they are published in full to finally extinguish perverse doubts that remain over what happened that day.
